Nov. 1, 2013 -- Diane Sawyer

KMBC 9 News Anchor Larry Moore has announced that he will become Anchor Emeritus at KMBC at the end of November. As a part of his announcement, Larry visited the set of World News with Diane Sawyer and spent time with her.

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KMBC 9 News Anchor Larry Moore has announced that he will become Anchor Emeritus at KMBC at the end of November. As a part of his announcement, Larry visited the set of World News with Diane Sawyer and spent time with her.

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It was a joy spending some time with Diane Sawyer at ABC's World News headquarters last month. It was part of my 40th anniversary anchoring and reporting the news for Channel 9. We got to chat about several things involving the news of the day and the operations of newsrooms local versus network.

Our visit was actually part of a video shoot which we’ll be using all during the month of November. You’ve probably already seen the video of Diane and me sitting at her anchor desk and announcing the fact that I’ll be leaving the nightly anchor desk at the end of this month.

Diane was very gracious as we talked and taped our messages.

Diane and I have worked on the same TV channel for many years. We first came in contact long ago when she was part of the Richard Nixon administration and I had already started work as a reporter and anchor. She was host for a special gathering that I attended featuring a number of the members of the Nixon administration. It was quite historic and eye-opening for a young reporter like me. She also helped Nixon with his memoirs after he left office.

I hope you enjoy some of the personal exchanges Diane and I had during our visit at ABC News. I am always impressed that the news at the network level is covered and presented in much the same way we do on a local basis. Sometimes I think we have people who are more capable, but that is always up for debate.

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